Repetitive crashes

It all started when I left PoE open on my desktop at the log in screen. I left it on for 10 minutes or so and the sound stopped playing. I went on to play, where the gameplay was significantly laggy.

After awhile, I began to see black "drafting lines" in the tabbed overlay map in game. After about 15 minutes of gameplay, I got a "mapchunk" runtime error and forcibly crashed the game. It happens usually when I teleport through instances, but sometimes in the middle of a dungeon. I will log back in in time for the instance to not reset, and see dead bodies everywhere, but my map is gone so I have to run everywhere to figure out where to go.

Also, I crashed once due to "not finding a source" for a sound.

This is ridiculous, I have crashed multiple tiems mid boss fight, in the middle of exploring a huge instance with no waypoint so I have to kill the upper levels again... It really is wearing on my last nerve. Please help (my computer can easily take the game)!

Mapchunk errors are explained in the stickies, but most often it's due to ram issues (not enough or limited because of a 32 bit OS)

the other error sounds like a corrupted ggpk file, and having a corrupt file can cause a mapchunk error (like 1% of the time if that).

Now everytime I go into "the harvest" I get a repeating sound over and over and crash with no error message.

It is not the ram, I played all the way until the finale of act 3 without a single crash, almost consecutively (was passing time waiting for football).

How do I fix the corrupt file (I am doing my own research at the moment, but humor me if you will)?

"EOUTOFMEMORY "
Never got that error message.

"You can also reduce the rate of these crashes slightly by adding -gc 2 to the end of your Path of Exile shortcut target, as shown here:"
My shortcut target is a url, I get it from running off of steam. Steam/rungameid(numbers).

""""To use PackCheck:

1) Navigate to your Path of Exile install directory.

2) Right click PackCheck.exe and select Run as Administrator

3) Wait for the tool to complete. It can take a long time, and will print "Done." when finished.

4) If the tool reports any errors then please copy and paste the output into your bug report.

5) Run Path of Exile again. Any files that were corrupted should now repatch."""""

I don't have packcheck.exe anywhere on my computer, ran a search. The only thing I have is an internet shortcut.

I can no longer play more than 5 minutes without a crash. Looking like I'm deleting this game if the issue is not resolved within the day, as none of the suggested issues work for steam and it isn't my computer.

Having the same issue. Followed the suggested steps to solve. Ran pack check and everything was fine and added gc 2. Still crash after a couple map changes. Read more on sticky about solutions and says it can occur with less than 4 gigs of ram. Please update steam requirements that list that it only requires 2. After all of this frustration and research it would have been nice to know that it was only a ram requirement issue as I only have 3 gigs.

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FiendishWuMd wrote:

Having the same issue. Followed the suggested steps to solve. Ran pack check and everything was fine and added gc 2. Still crash after a couple map changes. Read more on sticky about solutions and says it can occur with less than 4 gigs of ram. Please update steam requirements that list that it only requires 2. After all of this frustration and research it would have been nice to know that it was only a ram requirement issue as I only have 3 gigs.

I looked at it, and the crashes don't sync up with RAM usage. It is a throw-away solution like "Check your drivers" or "Make sure your computers plugged in" that is never correct. My RAM is also above the prescribed amount. None of the other suggested solutions work with steam ran games, as I dont have an install file, packcheck.exe, or a shortcut to add -gc2 to.

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tjhudd wrote:

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FiendishWuMd wrote:

Having the same issue. Followed the suggested steps to solve. Ran pack check and everything was fine and added gc 2. Still crash after a couple map changes. Read more on sticky about solutions and says it can occur with less than 4 gigs of ram. Please update steam requirements that list that it only requires 2. After all of this frustration and research it would have been nice to know that it was only a ram requirement issue as I only have 3 gigs.

I looked at it, and the crashes don't sync up with RAM usage. It is a throw-away solution like "Check your drivers" or "Make sure your computers plugged in" that is never correct. My RAM is also above the prescribed amount. None of the other suggested solutions work with steam ran games, as I dont have an install file, packcheck.exe, or a shortcut to add -gc2 to.

I run on steam also and pack check is there. in one of the previous threads about this issue they instruct you how to add gc 2 through steam.

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FiendishWuMd wrote:

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tjhudd wrote:

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FiendishWuMd wrote:

Having the same issue. Followed the suggested steps to solve. Ran pack check and everything was fine and added gc 2. Still crash after a couple map changes. Read more on sticky about solutions and says it can occur with less than 4 gigs of ram. Please update steam requirements that list that it only requires 2. After all of this frustration and research it would have been nice to know that it was only a ram requirement issue as I only have 3 gigs.

I looked at it, and the crashes don't sync up with RAM usage. It is a throw-away solution like "Check your drivers" or "Make sure your computers plugged in" that is never correct. My RAM is also above the prescribed amount. None of the other suggested solutions work with steam ran games, as I dont have an install file, packcheck.exe, or a shortcut to add -gc2 to.

I run on steam also and pack check is there. in one of the previous threads about this issue they instruct you how to add gc 2 through steam.

I have searched my entire computer for "pack" "check" "packcheck" and "packcheck.exe" and yielded no results as well as searching manually.

Could you post a link to this other thread because I cant find it?

Would this be solved by deleting and reinstalling? If so would I keep my character?

Go to your C drive, then open program files, then open steam, steam apps, common, path of exile, and pack check will be in there.

As for gc2 this is the link to the post. There is a button on there that shows directions for steam users: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/73322

But i have played for 2 days and have more crashes than i have ever had in any other game. Now not only this issue but odd ones like errors loading lightning animations and such. Think i will pass on this game before i get any more invested. Good luck to you though.